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>&#13;A window manager is required in order to decorate, move, resize, and
perform other operations on individual X windows.
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>Cygwin/X can work with window managers in several different
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>Internal window manager for multiwindow mode.  The internal window
manager that creates a Windows window for each top-level X window
is automatically started when using the <CODE
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command-line parameter to <B
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>External local window managers (e.g. <B
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>twm</B
>,
<B
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>mwm</B
> (part of the motif package), <B
CLASS="command"
>fvwm2</B
>,
<B
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>openbox</B
>, <B
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>aewm++</B
>, <B
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>WindowMaker</B
>).
These local window managers must be installed on Cygwin and run locally.
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>Remote window managers started by logging into an XDMCP session.
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>Remote window manager launched through an <B
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>ssh</B
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tunnel.  This is not Cygwin/X-specific, so you should be able to find
information about launching remote window managers from other sources.
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